6.40 Synthesis in the Laboratory

7.5 The Universe Yesterday

7.30 Introductory Electronics

9.8 Going to Work
What Sort of Work?
9.33 A Good Job With Prospects How Do I Decide?
What do students want from jobs - money, security, job satisfaction? Do their ideas agree with the experiences of people already working? Narrator JOHN DUNN Producer JILL SHEPPARD

(Repeat)

10.15 Music Time
Sounds Around Us: 1
10.38 British Social History
Richard Arkwright and the First Factories. The first in a new series of five programmes that looks at important topics from our history 1760-1851.
Today's programme examines the earliest powered cotton mill set in a leafy Derbyshire valley. Written by BRYN O'CALLAGHAN Narrated by MAX MASON Producer RONALD SHELLEY
11.0 Merry-go-Round
You are What You Eat
11.23 Talkabout
The King's Hiccups
11.42 General Studies. The Silicon Factor: What's it All About?

with Richard Whitmore and Moira Stuart
Weather JIM BACON
12.57 Regional News
(London and SE only: Financial Report, and News Headlines with sub-titles for the hard-of-hearing)

Donny MacLeod , Marian Foster and Bob Langley , the regular lunchtime hosts, are joined today by Marjorie Lofthouse. She presents a new series- Alive and Kicking - in which she joins a class of ladies being taught the not-so-gentle art of self-defence.
Editor JIM DUMIGHAN BBC Birmingham

2.1 Words and Pictures: The Very Hungry Caterpillar

2.18 Read On!: The First Person

2.40 Out of the Past: Mistress Anne's Diary: 1
With Elin Jenkins and Barry Jackson
Adapted from 'Anne Hughes - her boke', the diary of Anne, an 18th-century farmer's wife. Adapted for schools by Sue Limb.

from Belfast

Misadventures with Popeye.

A picture puzzle series of 13 programmes starring Adrian Hedley and Janet Ellis, with Sylvester McCoy and David Rappaport as the O-Men
1: Tommy Boyd and Wilf Lunn join Jigg, Pterry, Biggum and the others in the first of a new series of fast, zany clues to jigwords. What is the dreaded 'tartan-knees disease' and what is in Wilf's box? Fill in these boxes below for the competition jigword.
More clues on Back Pages
The Jigsaw Book of Puzzles, £1.25; The Second Book of Jigsaw Puzzles, 85p from bookshops from 12 October
BACK PACES: 98

with Simon Groom , Sarah Greene and Peter Duncan Expedition Japan
Slippery Customers
Thirty thousand wriggling eels were Simon's ' catch' when he waded up to his waist at the Hamana Lagoon Eel Farm. But the problems didn't end there - Master Chef Kyoshi Motohashi had his hands full when he showed Peter how to cook this gastronomic delicacy!
Assistant editors IAN OLIVER , RENNY RYE
Editor BIDDY BAXTER

With the voices of Kenneth Williams.

with Richard Baker Weatherman

The- live current affairs magazine programme which links London with the BBC's regional studios throughout Britain.
Frank Bough, Suje Lawley
Richard Kershaw , Hugh Scully and Sue Cook are the team that each weekday preseate the...features and films that make up the scene Nationwide.
Including Watchdog
' presented by HUGH SCULLY
Producers LINO FERRARI, PHIL HARDING MIKE HOGA.N, RICHARD TAIT
Deputy pditor ANDREWTAUSSIG Editor ROGER BOLTON

are two cops who couldn't catch a cold let alone a crook - and wouldn't know what to do if they did.
The last of present series. Follow the Leader
Blood may be thicker than water but Bean's not sure if it is also thicker than money when Freebie's beloved . Uncle Trapk foils their search. for hidden loot from a million dollar robbery.... written by DICK NELSON
Directed by ALEX MARCH

Presented by David Dimbleby

The issues, the people, and the stories that matter, reported by television's top, journalists, Michael Cockerell, Richard Lindley, Tom Mangold, Jeremy Paxman, John Stapleton, Peter Taylor, Philip Tibenham

(David Dimbleby presents The Defence of the United States, Thursday 10.50pm)

with John Humphrys Weatherman

starring
Michael Caine , Cliff Robertson
The South Pacific. November 1942, with the Japanese holding a vital part of a small island. Unless their radio transmitter can be silenced an American warship will be destroyed. Lt Lawson of the US Navy is assigned to a 15-man British force to destroy the Japanese base. Robert Aldrich repeats his great success with The Dirty Dozen in this exciting action film set at the height of World War II.
Screenplay by ROBERT ALDRICH and LUKAS HELLER
Produced and directed by ROBERT ALDRICH Films: page 23

The eighth of nine programmes

A new folk/rock band led by John Tarns plays music to summon up images of traditional England. With Bill Caddick, Graeme Taylor, Mike Gregory, Malcolm Bennett, Howard Evans and Roger Williams

BBC Bristol